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This open access book examines the first modern diplomatic contact between Europe and East Asia: the 1517 Portuguese embassy to China. The experience did not end well, for in 1521, the Ming Court decided to cut off relations, and a battle broke out between the Guangdong...

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Télécharger le livre :  Diaspora in Development
In this edited volume, leading scholars and experts explore the extraordinary potential of diaspora communities in driving economic growth, shaping foreign policies and fostering global connections with India’s approach, offering a compelling case study.In an...

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Télécharger le livre :  Reframing Masculinity for Young Men and Boys
This book provides a timely and essential exploration of masculinity and boyhood in the contemporary online and offline world. It critically examines the pressures faced by young men and boys, unpacking themes such as mental health, sexual behaviours and violence, while...

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Télécharger le livre :  How States Shape Markets in Latin America
Why have Latin American countries developed sharply divergent financial systems—and how do these systems shape national growth strategies? While Chile built large capital markets and Brazil expanded long-term credit for firms, Argentina lags behind in both. What...

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Télécharger le livre :  Stolen Goods in British Detective Fiction
This book pushes beyond the focus of murder mysteries in British detective fiction to illuminate elements of what is perhaps the next most pertinent subgenre: stories of burglary and theft. Chapters cover work including E. W. Hornung's Raffles stories, Sherlock Holmes's...

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Télécharger le livre :  Science and Technology in South Africa, 1939-1946
This book addresses the ways in which science and technology were employed in South Africa during the Second World War. A key theme underlying the chapters is the human mind: in Chapter One, which addresses the submission of ideas to the Union Defence Force, this is the...

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Télécharger le livre :  New Directions in Vernacular Security Research
This edited collection offers new engagement with important case studies and contexts that have been neglected in the field of vernacular security research. With cutting edge scholarship from fieldwork and primary research in Georgia, Tunisia, Bangladesh, the Pacific...

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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Water and Energy for a Sustainable Future
This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore the intricate relationship between water, energy, and societal well-being. It combines environmental, economic, social, and technological perspectives to comprehensively analyse water's crucial role in energy...

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Télécharger le livre :  Agroforestry for a Sustainable Future
This book investigates the multifaceted role of agroforestry in promoting sustainability and resilience in agricultural systems, with a particular focus on the potential of carbon credits and markets to incentivize these systems. The approach taken in this book is...

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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Italian Youth Television
This open-access volume is the first English-language study of the vibrant contemporary landscape of Italian youth-oriented television. TV shows addressed include internationally popular series such as SKAM Italia, Baby, Summertime, We Are Who We...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Gendered Life Stories in Spain
This book examines how gendered life stories act as interventions that unsettle the boundaries between private experience and public life. From the testimonies of women whose accounts of gender violence have forced a reckoning with institutional silence, to the...

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Télécharger le livre :  From Dust to Ashes
The second edition of From Dust to Ashes brings up-to-date this classic text investigating the replacement of burial by cremation in England and Wales. Cremation was promoted seriously in 1874 but the first cremation did not take place until eleven years...

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Télécharger le livre :  The State and the Imperative for Social Policy Reform in Africa
This concise and interdisciplinary open access volume explores the imperative of social policy reform in Sub-Saharan Africa and the potential nature of such a reform. Its chapters study social policy changes that have been made before and during the COVID-19 pandemic,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Human Rights and Religions
Offering a critical, comprehensive, and holistic discussion of the validity of human rights inside and outside of religious communities, this book explores the relationship between religious communities, abstract “religion”, and human rights from an ethical...

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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Parents
This book provides a detailed look into the social world of infants and toddlers and explores the consequences of that environment on learning and socio-emotional development. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and systematic observation in a rural community in...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Eastern-Western Philosophical Discourse of Mind, Reason, and Culture
This book provides a comparative study, as well as an account of global history, of the philosophical discourse of mind, reason, and culture. It then enthrones the cosmopolitan doctrine of mind, reason, and culture. It provides an approach that supersedes both...

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Télécharger le livre :  Domestic Broadcasting in Wartime Nazi Germany, 1939-1944
The book provides an account of German domestic broadcasting in the period from September 1939 to August 1944. It is the product of extensive research in German and British archives and constitutes a case-study into a broadcasting service in a dictatorship in wartime....

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Télécharger le livre :  The Invention of the Lyric Body
This book examines the evolution of the female lyric body in Western culture through the figure of Helen of Troy, focusing on the Hispanic literary archive and its evolving strategies for representing her and her cultural doubles, here defined as Helen-like bodies. It...

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Télécharger le livre :  Media Ecology for the 21st Century
This book frames "theories" as tools for understanding and applying real-world phenomena, bridging classic scholarship with the unprecedented challenges and opportunities posed by machine intelligence, digital platforms, and shifting cultural dynamics. Structured in...

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Télécharger le livre :  Fragmented Local Government Systems and Crises
This open access book assesses the links between decentralization and crises management in Czechia, paying particular attention to the ways in which local municipalities have dealt with turbulent problems including the Covid-19 pandemic and the migration crises caused...

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